Hello, Boston!

Now we're rolling on the photo front...This is a shot David Ryan got of the archbishop on the Bridge of Angels this morning (see "Sean O'Malley's Rome" item below).

David says he made this picture because he thought it had several interesting elements. The archbishop, who had not previously been all that comfortable with the news media, is surrounded by cameras and "wired for sound," with the battery pack of a wireless microphone of a TV station clearly visible on the knotted white rope belt around his brown habit. You can also see the cords of several other microphones emerging from under the pointy Capuchin hood and running down his back toward his front pockets, where reporters had stashed four more battery packs.

On the archbishop's head, notice the purple (OK, in real life it looks fuschia, but the church says the color is Roman purple) zucchetto (that's the skullcap); that will be replaced by a scarlet one on Friday, when O'Malley becomes a cardinal. The statues you see in the background are of angels (hence the bridge's name); the woman in red is Lisa Hughes of CBS4.